Mine Safety

More Workers Killed On Job In 2010, Labor Group Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: White House, House of Representatives, Workers, Workplace Deaths, Safety, Office of Management and Budget, Afl-Cio, Regulation, Mine Safety, Worker Safety, Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Death, Video, Workplace, Gop, Unions, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Thirteen U.S. workers were killed on the job each day and roughly 50,000 died from work-related diseases in 2010, a worrisome increase i...

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West Va. Gov Wants To Drug Test Miners

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Massey Energy, Video, Drug Testing Coal Miners, Mining, West Virginia, Drug Testing, Drugs, Mine Safety, Coal, Earl Ray Tomblin, Upper Big Branch Mine, Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Green News

Drug testing for miners has become a crucial component of the safety legislation under consideration in West Virginia in the wake of the Upper Big Bra...

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Federal Official: 'We've Got To Stay Focused On Mine Safety'

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, Mine Safety Complacency, Mountaintop Removal, Joe Main Mine Safety, Mines, Mine Safety, Sago Mine, Coal Mining, Joe Main, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — If there's one lasting cultural change Mine Safety and Health Administration Director Joe Main wants to make in both the fe...

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Disgraced Senator Resurfaces Lobbying For Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Lobbying, Big Coal, Mining, Lobbyists, Crandall Canyon, Mine Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Coal, Larry Craig, Murray Energy, George Miller, Shelly-Moore-Capito, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Having left Congress after an embarrassing 2007 arrest, former Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has quietly reemerged in Washington as a lobby...

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Miners Rescued After 14 Hours

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Kentucky Miners, Russell Asher, Doug Warren, Mine Safety, Kentucky Coal Mining, Pernell Witherspoon, Kentucky Miners Trapped, Kentucky Mine Accident, Mining, Middlesboro Mine, Bell County Miners, Miners Trapped Bell County, Coal Mining, Middlesborough Mine, Green News

3 Men Freed After Being Trapped in Kentucky Mine UPDATE 1:03 a.m. The Courier-Journal reports that the miners were rescued s...

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House Dems: Coal Industry Rep Gave 'Questionable' Testimony On Whistleblower Retaliation

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Msha, Massey Energy, Whistleblowers, Massey Coal Mine, Charles Scott Howard, Massey Energy Company, Robert Byrd, Arch Coal, Mine Safety, Anthony Bumbico, Upper Big Branch Mine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats have accused a coal industry representative of giving "questionable" testimony during a hearing on mine safety reform ea...

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Families Of Dead Coal Miners Let Down By Inaction In Washington

Los Angeles Times | Kim Geiger, Tom Hamburger and Doug Smith | Posted 07.08.2011

Read More: Mine Safety Regulations, Coal Mine Legislation, West Virginia Coal Mining, Coal Mine Safety, Big Branch, Coal Mine Regulations, West Virginia, Mine Safety Legislation, Mine Safety, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Coal Mining, Upper Big Branch Mine, Politics News

While there have been improvements, many of the glaring problems revealed by the explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine remain unaddressed....

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64 Percent Of U.S. Mines Lack Communications Gear

AP | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Energy, Mine Safety Gear, Mine Communications Mandate, Coal Mine Communications, Mine Communications, Mine Safety, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Mine Communications Gear, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- U.S. coal mine operators remain well short of meeting a 5-year-old congressional mandate to equip underground mines with high-tec...

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West Virginia Mine Disaster: One Year Later, Safety Overhaul Stalled

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Upper Big Branch, Watchdog Blog, Thewatchdog, Mine Safety, Mine Anniversary, Upper Big Branch Disaster, Mine Disaster, Green News

NEW YORK -- A year after the worst coal mining accident in decades took the lives of 29 workers, prompting urgent calls to revamp oversight of one of ...

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Is 'The Bar For Prosecution Too High' With Mine Safety?

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msha, Energy, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Mine Safety, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Mine Regulators, Green News

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Federal mine regulators need stronger laws to protect the nation's underground coal miners, particularly when it comes to pr...

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Green News Report: January 6, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, House of Representatives, Cap and Trade, Epa, Regulation, Pipelines, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Coal, Offshore Drilling, Apocalypse, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, US Senate, Gop, Coal Ash, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Fish Kill, Arkansas, Bp, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Oil, Green News, Sustainability, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, China, Desertification, Glaciers, France, John Boehner, Wikileaks, Msha, Infrastructure, Rising Sea Level, Judy Bonds, Mountaintop Removal, Incandescent Bulbs, Genetically Modified Food, John Kasich, Massey Energy, Gmos, White House Oil Spill Commission, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Creation Care, Mine Safety, Energy Efficiency, High Speed Rail, Fox News, Green News

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Feds Issued 600 Mine Safety Violations In September

AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: West Virginia Mine Safety, Mine Safety, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal inspectors issued nearly 600 citations for safety violations found at 30 problem mining operations across the countr...

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Cave In: How Industry And Inattention Killed Mine Safety Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mining Disasters, Massey Energy, Mine Safety Act, Upper Big Branch, Mine Safety, Mine Safety Bill, George Miller Mine Safety, Upper Big Branch Mine, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Green News

"Every mine law ever wrote has been written in blood, but this time even that wasn't enough" - Fred Burgess, whose stepson died in the Upper Big Branc...

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GOP Unmoved by Miners' Health Concerns While MSHA Cracks Down on Black Lung, Scofflaws

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Massey Energy, Coal Industry, Mining, Mine Safety, Obama, Congress, Coal, Business News

In an earlier political era, a major mine disaster like the explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 miners might have spurred Congress to take action. Not in today's Washington.

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Feds Sue To Close Massey Mine In Kentucky Over Safety Violations

AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Massey Energy, Pike County, Massey Mine, Kentucky, Regulation, Freedom Energy Mine, Mine Safety, Freedom Energy Mine No. 1, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Department of Labor filed an unprecedented federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to close a mine operated by troubled c...

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Rahall Touts Seniority, Accomplishments On Mine Safety

Heath Harrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Ads, Massey Energy, Elliott Spike Maynard, Nick Rahall, Mine Safety, Health Care, Eyes and Ears, Home News

Democrat Nick Rahall has represented West Virginia's 3rd Congressional district since 1977 and currently chairs the House Natural Resources Committee ...

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China Coal Mine Explosion Kills 20, Traps More Than 30

AP | KEN TEH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green News, China Mine Safety, Mine Safety, China Mining, Coal Mining, China, China Mine, China Mine Explosion, World News

YUZHOU, China — Dozens of anxious relatives and friends of 11 miners trapped underground by an explosion in central China gathered outside the s...

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Let's Cheer the Chilean Miners -- and Fight for Workers Everywhere

Richard Trumka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Upper Big Branch Mine, John Raese, Rand Paul, Umwa, Chile, United Mine Workers of America, Afl-Cio, Mine Safety, Chilean Miners, Unions, Union, Massey, Politics News

While I cheered for the miners coming up from the ground beneath the Atacama Desert, it was painful to recognize yet another sign of the dangerous, corporate-driven agenda that has far more regard for the bottom line than for working people.

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They Never Should Have Been Trapped in the First Place

Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mine Safety, Chilean Miners, Mining, San Jose Mine, Politics News

It is wonderful that all of the trapped Chilean miners look to be rescued alive, and that the globe can share in their joy. But they never should have been trapped in the first place.

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Six Months After Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Republicans Still Obstructing Progress

Jake Blumgart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Massey Energy, Don Blankenship, Republican Obstructionism, Cry Wolf, Big Business, Mike Enzi, Mine Safety, Mine Explosion, Worker Safety, Upper Big Branch, Politics News

If the Republicans and their industry allies are successful in sinking the Byrd Act, another option for worker safety reform won't present itself again soon, or at least until the next mine explodes.

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Inspector General: Mine Safety Regulator's Failures Start At The Top

Ellen Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msha, Mine Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Mine Safety Oig, Mine Safety Report, Msha Leadership, Mine Safety Problems, Green News

The MSHA's failure to improve the safety standards of repeat offenders results from a systemic lack of focus and leadership that spans decades, according to a report released Wednesday by the Office of the Inspector General.

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Mining Lobbyists Win, Companies Get First Look At Diesel-Cancer Study

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lung Cancer, National Cancer Institute, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Regulation, Diesel, Mine Safety, Patton Boggs, Osha, Study, Niosh, Mining, Henry Chajet, Cancer, Diesel Exhaust, Politics News

A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published this fall -...

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Author Isabel Allende Visits Trapped Miners' Families

AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trapped Chilean Miners, Trapped-Miners, Author Isabel Allende, Isabel Allende Miners, Isabel Allende, Trapped Miners, Chilean Miners, Mine-Safety, Chile's Miners, Books News

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The two Isabel Allendes joined Chile's president Sunday in a visit to the mine where a team of hundreds is working to res...

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Mine Workers Tipped Off Before 'Surprise' Inspections, Federal Regulator Says

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mine Safety Inspections, Mine Safety Inspectors, Federal Mine Safety Inspections, Mining, Mine Companies, Mine Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Green News

WASHINGTON — Some mine companies are tipping off their underground workers before federal officials make surprise inspections, an illegal practi...

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Green News Report: August 19, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Floods, Antarctica, Oil Spill Response, American Petroleum Institute, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations, Factory Farms, Russia Heat Wave, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Pollution, Eggs, Tar Sands, Drought, Indonesia, Don Blankenship, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Interior Department, Bp, Massey Energy, Ipcc, Opec, Pakistan, Salmonella, Mine Safety, Coral Reefs, Arctic, BRAD BLOG, Oil Prices, Green News, Climate Legislation, Food Recall, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Michigan Oil Spill, Mark Morford, Green News

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